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WAR IN MIND

Linocut image from the Patriots Progress by William Kermode

War in Mind is a new project from Spaniel in the Works Theatre Company looking at the legacy of World War One. The project involves workshops and performances and explores lives affected by shell shock including the sufferers, doctors and those whose mental state was not recognised in particular the families left at home.

As part of the project we will be running workshops in archive research and printmaking.

War in Mind Workshops

Inspired by the linocuts of William Kermode this workshop will introduce simple ways to create new prints using recycled polystyrene and paint.The workshop is suitable for families with children over 9 and will look at images from World War One to create powerful prints using simple techniques and materials.£ 2.50 per child (accompanying adults free)£2.50 for adults not accompanying children

A special workshop looking at archive records and the stories that they can tell about people and families. This workshop will include how to find records, where to look online and what the records can tell us. The records will relate particularly to characters as part of our shell shock performance War in Mind including Tetbury driver William Charles Phillips and Stroud doctor Harold Hills £ 2.50 per child (accompanying adults free)£2.50 for adults not accompanying children

War in Mind Performances

This new powerful dramatic performance looks at the real lives of people affected by shell shock in the First World War.

Driver William Charles Phillips, a Tetbury man who though he never actively fought at the front, died in Gloucester Asylum from paralysis in 1917.

Doctor Harold Hills, later to be a Stroud doctor, who worked with sufferers at the Front and prevented many men being shot for desertion through his testimonies.

Violet Hall, a wife and mother from a Gloucestershire village who lost her sons and was then cut off from the local community because she was collecting their war pension.

Based on archive records and through research War in Mind looks at the treatment for sufferers, the problems for families and the stigma attached to the what is now known as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.